Nobody is coached to jump off sides..nobody is coached to miss blocking assignments..nobody is coached to miss tackles or blow coverages..BUT it’s up to the coaches and leaders to set a standard and let them know it not acceptable..that’s this staffs biggest challenge rn. Getting these young guys to understand it’s about the little things. Greatness is about being consistently good practice in practice out. Day in day out. Game in game out. Big opportunity on Friday to make a statement and actually build off what they did in the 2nd half Saturday
That’s the point.
The coaches themselves can’t get the little things right.
Half our plays are dead BEFORE THE BALL IS EVEN SNAPPED due to alignment on both sides of the ball.
Our personnel decisions are terrible on both sides of the ball.
The undisciplined play is NOT just youth. It’s the type of thing that happaens when the coaching staff is internally out of control.
I have seen this first hand. The most disturbing part of all this is the lost look Díaz has on his face when things are not going well.
When you see that look (and I have personally seen it on my own teams), it means that the coach is losing it on the inside and his resolve is completely shaken.
Players ALWAYS notice that look and it puts a fog over the whole team and kills their confidence and focus.
False starts, shoestring tackles and tripping over grass, dropped passes, missed blocks, blown coverages, muffed punts, overlooked receivers, missed tackles, and all the other errors associated with bad football can be traced to that lost look.
A football team is much more than just the sum of its parts. It is a living entity made of various “components” that come together to function as one body. The minds of the players and coaches come together to form one singular mind with a singular task.
Just like any other collection of minds, when the strongest minds begin to falter, the effect avalanches through the whole entity.
You see this play out every game through momentum. That is what momentum is. The minds leading these players have shown themselves to be not up to the task in many ways.
There many on the team that want it bad but they have never had quality coaching as a whole, so they don’t know what winning looks like.
People talk about the “disease” and “cancers”. But you know what causes “disease” and “cancers” more than anything else?
Favoritism and incompetence.
We heard rumors of both in the offseason, but didn’t want to believe.
We see both in full display on the field where it can’t be hidden.
We can nitpick talent and execution if we want to, but it is completely obvious we are a poorly coached team and THAT is the most serious hurdle we need to get over to turn this around.
